Coming up: Forum, walk and More

I have a few topics to cover with you today on ways you can get involved with our community, so stay with me.

PUBLIC FORUM

Coming up on Thursday is our annual public forum with Leadership Tallahassee, the Village Square, the Tallahassee Democrat, several city and county commissioners and, most importantly, your questions.

Paul Flemming, our Politics & Policy editor overseeing coverage of state and local government and policy issues, will moderate. You will be able to get your questions to Flemming at the forum or you can email him in advance at pflemming@tallahassee.com.

This forum traces its roots to a Leadership Tallahassee event that used to take place in the County Commission chamber for the LT class. Each year, I would ask the commissioners a few questions and moderate a conversation. It worked so well in helping to answer citizens’ questions that we expanded the program and found partners.

The lineup of commissioners this year includes: Andrew Gillum, Scott Maddox, Nancy Miller and Gil Ziffer, from the city, and John Dailey, Bryan Desloge, Kristin Dozier, Mary Ann Lindley and Nick Maddox, from the county.

Democrat file photos from previous forums

The forum is free to the public because of funding from the Knight Foundation to the Village Square, but we do ask that you register and print out a ticket from the Village Square website on this link. You are welcome to bring food and a drink.

The forum will be streamed live on video at Tallahassee.com and available for replay on demand.

The ongoing conversation will continue Feb. 27 with the second annual “Speed Date Your Local Leaders” forum. More to come on this.

MOVE WALK DOWNTOWN

We’re partnering with the Council on Culture & Arts for a downtown walk past some of the public art on display. The interim director of COCA, Amanda Karioth Thompson, will join me for a walk of about 3 miles, starting on Kleman Plaza at 9 a.m at “The Sunday Paper” sculpture, appropriately enough.

We’ll pass the dolphin sculpture and many monuments at the Capitol, the Courthouse, the Museum of Florida History and a little piece of Gaines Street. We’ll do a Gaines Street area walk separately another time.

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